Old houses in the old city.
Pune has a variety of older houses. Typically two storied, dwellings on top and wooden shuttered shops below. They are usually constructed of wood and brick with some stone. The railings and balconies are of cast iron, often decorative, and roofs of terracotta tiles with recent repairs of corrugated tin. They used to line the streets with almost no gaps in between adjacent houses. Some were ancestral family homes, some single room tenements. Rickety, crumbling, sometimes ornate, but almost all certainly destined to be pulled down. They will disappear quietly.
I have started to draw these houses when I can. I draw using pen and ink wash. I draw directly to paper without any pencilling. I also draw on site. I sometimes screw up but it keeps me focused and its fun. I am usually squatting or leaning in an uncomfortable pose in a street corner. The local kids sometime ( it was the summer holidays) come to see what I am doing. The boys are usually full of questions, the girls seem more sincere in their appreciative smiles when I am done.
